Lee Woo-Suk

Production

Lee Woo-Suk

Born 1935-01-01

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Game of Death II poster
5.8

In this dark tale of revenge, Bruce Lee "returns" as Billy Lo, whose best friend Chin Ku dies of a sudden illness. But suspicion of foul play arises when a gang tries to steal Ku's coffin at the funeral using a helicopter. When Lo's younger brother Lo hears about the incident, he leaves his Buddhist master to investigate the truth. His trail soon leads him to the Castle of Death, the last place Chin Ku was seen alive. There, he meets and befriends an unlikely ally--a cruel and merciless martial arts expert who is also the tower's master. But when the master dies under mysterious circumstances, Lo ends up dueling with someone far more terrifying.

Game of Death II

1981

Three Times Each for Short and Long Ways poster
NR

Jong Sil, a sound effects director, is awarded a carte blanche for his ingenious invention of a coke bottle opener sound used in a commercial film for an Arab client. Ecstatic, drunk, he heads home to his wife and kids, only to end up spending the night in an apartment unit one floor above which belongs to a single woman. The preposterous one-night-stand snowballs into a major event, for which he is reported gone missing on TV. Lost, Jong Sil becomes more involved with the woman, discovering things about her, as their relationship takes an unexpected turn.

Three Times Each for Short and Long Ways

1981

The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well poster
6.4

The lives of 4 interconnected South Koreans – a married couple, a novelist the wife is having an affair with, and a second woman the novelist is simultaneously involved with.

The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well

1996

Ieoh Island poster
6.6

A company hopes to open a spa hotel named after Ieodo, a mythical island inhabited by the souls of drowned sailors. During a study trip to the proposed location of the hotel, a journalist disappears under mysterious circumstances. One of the contractors goes to Ieodo's neighboring island, populated by widows of the dead sailors, to unravel the mystery.

Ieoh Island

1977

Never Never Forget Me poster
7.0

Yeong-su and Jeong-ah experience many problems as their budding romance defies the strict rules of the co-ed highschool they attend. After graduation when it looks like they can be free to live their own lives, Yeong-su joins the military and their relationship will never be the same.

Never Never Forget Me

1976

Chilsu and Mansu poster
7.0

An aimless young man and his sign-painter friend draw a crowd when they climb to the top of a high-rise billboard.

Chilsu and Mansu

1988

The Wild Panther poster
6.0

An action-filled martial arts film in which guerilla fighters and foreign spies clash in kung fu combat when important military secrets are at stake.

The Wild Panther

1984

Dreams of the Strong poster
10.0

Il-bong was utterly defeated as a wrestling athlete. He decides against returning to his hometown and stays in Seoul. As he wanders the street, going from job to job, someone recommends him to become an actor. But the acting roles that are waiting Il-bong are in adult movies. At the set, Il-bong meets Ae-ja and falls in love with her. They give up the adult films and Ae-ja gets pregnant. Because they are desperately poor, Ae-ja has a miscarriage and Il-bong curses his incompetence. The two decide to part for one year. During that time, Il-bong becomes a male prostitute and makes a ferocious amount of money. But he has become tough without realizing it. After the year is over, Il-bong goes to their promised meeting place but Ae-ja is nowhere to be seen. Il-bong wails to the city.

Dreams of the Strong

1985

The Express Train to Hell poster
9.0

Two children vow revenge for the death of their parents. Eighteen years later, they meet again to carry out their promise, but one of them has been blinded by their enemy.

The Express Train to Hell

1977

Good Windy Days poster
6.6

Three friends, Deokbae, Chun-sik, and Kil-nam, work each at a suburban Chinese restaurant, a barbershop, and a motel. The three friends are clueless about their future. They just share the drinks and love stories. Kil-nam is in love with Jin-ok working at a hair salon and Chun-sik is after Yu who also works at the barbershop. Naive Duk-bae's mind is torn between Chun-sun who works at a factory and an uptown girl Myung-hi.

Good Windy Days

1980

Deep Blue Night poster
5.9

Baek Ho-bin, who is in the U.S. illegally, dreams of getting rich fast so that he can bring his pregnant wife over from Korea. After conning a Korean immigrant and running off to L.A. with her money, Ho-bin marries another Korean woman named Jane in order to procure a green card...

Deep Blue Night

1985

Hello, God poster
9.0

Byung-tae who has cerebral paralysis goes to the wrong destination and then meets Min-wu and suicidal Chun-ja in the station office and joins their journey. Chun-ja causes a lot of trouble such as stealing Byung-tae's wallet and running away. Chun-ja, who is pregnant, gives birth in a barn. Min-wu and Chun-ja hold a small wedding in a church. The trio arrive in Chun-ja's hometown and Byung-tae heads alone for Kyung-ju, his destination. There he does plenty of sightseeing.

Hello, God

1987

Late Autumn poster
7.0

Hye-rim is a model prisoner serving out her sentence for murder. With two years left to go, she gets a special outing. Hye-rim gets on a train to Kang-reung to visit her mother's grave. At the place, she meets Min-gi, a young man running away after being involved in a crime organization. Min-gi's persistence melts the heart that was hardened in jail. Hye-rim and Min-gi fall in love.

Late Autumn

1982

Eulhwa poster
9.0

Eul-hwa discovers that she has a talent for shamanism. She sends her son away to be raised by monks while she delves into shamanistic rituals and spells. Eventually she becomes a powerful shaman. However, with Christianity taking hold in Korea, Eul-hwa finds her way of life threatened and herself at odds with her religious son.

Eulhwa

1979

Black Republic poster
6.5

A social drama about a young student activist who hides from the authorities by working in a small mining town.

Black Republic

1990

Promises poster
4.5

Mild-mannered and modest Sook-young looks like your usual middle-aged woman, but happens to be a man-killing murderess. On a train trip to Mokpo, she remembers an earlier trip as a prisoner on furlough accompanied by a menacing but kind butch female guard. On the train they meet Hoon, a young man who falls for Sook-young. The guard lets them be alone at a bizarre marriage in a hill-top graveyard.

Promises

1975

The Light of Recollection poster
8.0

John tries to overcome the civilization tragedy of this era by tracking the future of man, and Hyun-woo is young people who try to overcome it by tracking the human past. Between them, a woman, So-yeon, who symbolizes that only love is human salvation, intervenes and a love triangle is formed. One day, Yo-seob goes missing while flying a hang glider in Halla Mountain, and Hyun-woo and So-yeon form a family by raising Yo-seob's child, Darin. After four years, Hyun-woo and So-yeon leave for Jeju Island and reminisce about Yo-seob when they hear that Yo-seob may be alive. But Yo-seob was nowhere to be found. Hyun-woo and So-yeon head to the uninhabited island, which they considered to be an ideal island, listening to the hearing of the songs he enjoyed singing at Yo-seob's tomb. It is a movie that persistently traces the dreams, ideals, and the end of love of these three young people.

The Light of Recollection

1985

Really Sorry poster
6.0

Yeong-su learns that Jeong-ah, a woman he thought dead, is alive and well but her parents will not allow him to see her because she is engaged to be married. When he does finally meet her, he cannot understand the attitude of his former high school sweetheart, not realizing that she is keeping a secret from him.

Really Sorry

1976

Transgression poster
6.3

Chim-Ae, an orphan, is saved by an old monk of Seo San Temple, Mu Bul Dang while he is wandering in war fires. Then he enters the priesthood and trains himself a mountaineering asceticism. When he becomes an eminent young priest, the last trial to receive the mantle of the preceding abbot applies on him. The old monk sends the fairest of the fair, Myo-Hyang of cottage Ni Am to Chim-Ae to form a connection with her. But Chim-Ae quickly removes his earthly desires towards woman and goes through this hardship by fasting meditation. However the old monk recognizes that love sprouted between two youngsters and shows Chim-Ae the face of transgression which he mentally violated without hesitation to make Chim-Ae and Myo-Hyang go back to mundane existence.

Transgression

1974

Bye June poster
6.5

As three friends prepare to enter adulthood with their high school graduation only a few months away, they lose one of them in an accident that will change their life forever.

Bye June

1998

The Flower at the Equator poster
6.0

A suspense film with a hint of the classic Hitchcock film Rear Window, with its theme about the isolation of alienated people living in the city.

The Flower at the Equator

1983

Hwang Jin Yi poster
5.7

Magistrate Hwang's daughter Jin-yi, is jilted before her wedding because a shoe maker was smitten with her and commits suicide. Jin-yi becomes a courtesan, and becomes famous for her wits and beauty. She falls for Byuk Kye-su, but he's chosen to be an envoy to a far off kingdom. When he leaves she feels so betrayed she takes to a life of wandering. She meets Lee Saeng, a destitute scholar, and stays with him until she discovers he's going to sell her to a group of itinerate clowns. Instead, she joins them willingly.

Hwang Jin Yi

1986

The Sleep Deeper Than Death poster
NR

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The Sleep Deeper Than Death

1979

Secret Agent poster
NR

After losing his sovereignty to Japan through the Eulsa Protection Treaty, Gojong ordered Lee Yong-ik to hide gold bars and military funds to restore his sovereignty. When King Gojong was forcibly abdicated, the army was disbanded. At this time, So-chun, daughter of Park Seong-hwan, who committed suicide by protecting himself as a soldier, gathers in the Dongsanbang. Dongsanbang's governor Dongsandae completed the patriotic bulwark as a patriot and passed it on to the believers from the military service. Among them, Min Jeong-gyo and So-chun fall in love and get married early, and they play an active role in the ranks of the Great Victory and Salvation Kingdom when the gold hidden by Lee Yong-ik is robbed by the Japanese.

Secret Agent

1976